List of anime companies

This is a list of anime industry companies involved in the production or distribution of anime.

Japan-based companies

Animation studios

• A-1 Pictures
• A.C.G.T
• A.P.P.P.
• Ajia-do Animation Works
• Anime International Company
• Arms Corporation
• Artland
• Asahi Production
• Asread
• Bandai Namco Pictures
• Bee Train
• Bones
• Brain's Base
• C2C
• CloverWorks
• CoMix Wave Films
• Creators in Pack
• C-Station
• Daume
• David Production
• Diomedéa
• Doga Kobo
• DLE
• ENGI
• Eiken
• Feel
• Gainax
• Gallop
• GoHands
• Gonzo
• Group TAC
• Yumeta Company (formerly known as TYO Animations.)
  • Hal Film Maker (defunct, absorbed into Yumeta Company after merger of previous Yumeta and Hal into TYO Animations.)
• Hoods Entertainment
• Imagin
• J.C.Staff
• Khara
• Kitty Films
• Kyoto Animation
• Lerche
• Liden Films
• Madhouse
• Magic Bus
• Manglobe
• MAPPA
• Mook Animation
• Mushi Production
• Nexus
• Nippon Animation
• Nomad
• OLM
• Orange
• Ordet
• P.A.Works
• Passione
• Pierrot
• Pine Jam
• Polygon Pictures
• Production I.G
• Radix Ace Entertainment
• Satelight
• Sanzigen
• Science SARU
• Shaft
• Shin-Ei Animation
• Seven
• Seven Arcs
• Silver Link
• Studio 4°C
• Studio Chizu
• Studio Comet
• Studio Deen
• Studio Fantasia
• Studio Ghibli
• Studio Hibari
• Studio Nue
• Studio Orphee
• Studio VOLN
• Sunrise
• SynergySP
• Tatsunoko Production
• Tezuka Productions
• TMS Entertainment (formerly Tokyo Movie Shinsha)
  • Telecom Animation Film
• TNK
• Toei Animation
• Topcraft
• Triangle Staff
• Trigger
• Ufotable
• White Fox
• Wit Studio
• Xebec
• Zexcs

Producers

• Animax
• Avex
• Bandai Visual
• BROCCOLI
• Dentsu
• Genco
• Geneon Universal Entertainment (formerly Pioneer LDC)
• Hakuhodo DY Media Partners
• Japan Home Video
• Kadokawa Shoten
• King Records / Starchild
• KSS
• Nihon Ad Systems
• Nintendo
• Pony Canyon
• Soft On Demand
• Sony
  • Sony Music Entertainment Japan
    • Aniplex
• Square Enix
• The Pokémon Company (Nintendo owns 32%.)
• Toho
• VAP
• Victor Entertainment

Non-Japanese companies

Distributors

North America & other regions

• Animation International
• AnimEigo (U.S.)
• Aniplex of America (U.S., American subsidiary of Aniplex owned by Sony Music Entertainment Japan)
• AT&T / WarnerMedia (U.S.)
  • Crunchyroll (U.S.)
  • Warner Bros. Television (U.S.)
  • Williams Street (U.S.; creators and producers of Adult Swim and Toonami programming blocks; produce anime as of 2003.)
• Discotek Media (U.S.)
• Disney (U.S.)
  • Hulu (U.S.; fully controlled and majority-owned by)
• Eleven Arts (U.S., movies only)
• GKIDS (U.S., movies only)
• Konami Cross Media NY (U.S.) (formerly known as 4Kids Productions and 4K Media Inc.; 4Kids Productions shut down in 2012 by 4Kids Entertainment, acquired by Konami and rebranded as 4K Media from 2012-2019).
• Miramax (U.S., previously owned by Disney until 2010 when it was acquired by Filmyard Holdings)
• Manga Entertainment (UK, U.S.: Established as L.A. Hero in 1990, brought by Island World Communications in late 1994 and renamed Manga Entertainment in 1995, bought by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2005, later bought by Lionsgate in 2016)
• Media Blasters (U.S.)
• Netflix (International)
• NIS America (U.S., American subsidiary of Nippon Ichi Software )
• Ponycan USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Pony Canyon)
• Right Stuf Inc. (U.S., main distribution subdivision is "Nozomi Entertainment" as of 2007)
• Saban Brands (U.S.)
• Sentai Filmworks (U.S.)
• Shout! Factory (U.S.)
• Sony (International)
  • Sony Pictures Television International/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (International)
    • Funimation (U.S.)
• Viz Media (U.S., owned jointly by Shogakukan and Shueisha of Japan, run independently)

South America

• Editorial Ivrea (Argentina)
• JBC (Brazil)

Europe-exclusive

• Animatsu Entertainment (United Kingdom, merged into Manga Entertainment UK)
• Anime Limited (United Kingdom, France and Ireland)
• Dynit (Italy, Switzerland)
• Kazé (France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, owned by Crunchyroll)
• Manga Entertainment UK (the main branch of "Manga Entertainment")
• MVM Films (UK)
• Universum Film GmbH (Germany)
• StudioCanal UK (UK)
• Universal Pictures (UK, Ireland)

Australia

• Madman Entertainment (Australia: Madman overwhelmingly dominates the Australian anime market, for many years through the 2000s controlling approximately 90% of all sales)
• Siren Visual (Australia)

Defunct

• ADV Films (U.S., U.K.) (shut down in 2009, selling off its assets and intellectual properties to four other Houston-based companies, such as Section23 Films)
• AN Entertainment (U.S., division of AnimeNation, no new releases since 2007. Retail operations of parent company ceased in 2014.)
• Bandai Entertainment (U.S., owned by Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • Bandai Visual USA (U.S., previously a subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan and not affiliated with Bandai Entertainment, now folded into Bandai Entertainment)
• Beez Entertainment (EU, owned by Bandai)
• Central Park Media (de facto defunct since mid-2007 when new DVD releases ceased; although they continued to license their titles for TV and VOD, they entered a state of limbo. Officially declared bankruptcy and assets liquidated in mid-2009. Several of their titles have been acquired by other anime distributing companies prior to and following Central Park Media's bankruptcy and liquidation, such as ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Funimation Entertainment, Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment, etc.)
  • US Manga Corps (U.S., part of Central Park Media)
• Family Home Entertainment (U.S., renamed Artisan Entertainment) in the 1990s, then acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003)
• Frontier Enterprises (Japan)
• Geneon Entertainment (U.S. branch "Geneon USA" (formerly "Pioneer Entertainment"), defunct September 2007. Parent Japanese company ceased in-house distribution of its own titles, many of which have been re-licensed by Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Parent company "Geneon Entertainment" then sold off its own ownership to NBCUniversal subsidiary UPI, which then merged Geneon with its own "Universal Pictures Japan" division on February 1, 2009, renaming the new company "Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan").
• Go Fish Pictures (U.S. subsidiary of DreamWorks)
• Illumitoon Entertainment (U.S., de facto defunct since late-2007 when new DVD releases were cancelled)
• Kadokawa Pictures USA (U.S., American subsidiary of Kadokawa Pictures)
• NuTech Digital (U.S.)
• Saban Entertainment (U.S., acquisitions either went to The Walt Disney Company or just expired, succeeded by Saban Brands)
• Streamline Pictures (U.S., Canada; stopped producing new anime releases in 1996, folding into Orion Pictures, which in turn folded into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer one year later, in 1997. The Streamline brand name officially went defunct in 2002.)
• Synch-Point (U.S., a subsidiary of Broccoli, defunct when parent company Broccoli International USA shut down their operations in 2007)
• U.S. Renditions (U.S., a subsidiary of Books Nippan, defunct mid-1990s)
• Urban Vision (U.S.)
• Tokyopop (U.S.)

Producers

• Harmony Gold USA (U.S.)
• Sav! The World Productions (FRA)
• World Events Productions (U.S.)
• Nelvana (Canada)